The Grue Bag Conferences are one-day internal conferences we run at the start of every semester. The presenters and attendees are all UConn students, and presentations run in two parallel sessions. Here are schedules for past Grue Bag Conferences and known future Grue Bag Conferences.
Spring 2015
January 24, 2015
Laurel Hall 110/111
Schedule TBA
Fall 2014
August 30, 2014
Oak Hall 108/109
Green Session | Blue Session |
Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco “Toward a Concept of Suffering” | Andrew Parisi “Modality and Proof Theory” |
Morgan Thomas “Naïve Set Theory via Semi-Formal Reasoning” | Tom Meagher “W.E.B. DuBois, Sylvia Wynter, and the Human Sciences” |
Nathan Kellen “A Puzzle About Promising and Consent” | Jordan Ochs “Foundational Cognition” |
Junyeol Kim “Horwichian Minimalism and the Aboutness of Propositions” | Ralph DiFranco “Do Racists Speak Truly? On the Truth-Conditional Content of Slurs” |
Hanna Gunn “Rigging the Game: Oppression in Speech” | Nate Sheff “Can Pettit Recognize Rights?” |
Kathy Fazekas “The Functional Role of the Passage of Time” | Mike Robillard “Bystander, Innocent Threats, and Types of Obstructors” |